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…”Liquor policy review: Vancouver council allows grocery stores to sell booze”….”Hottest day of the year forecast for Britain this weekend”…

…..hmmm…..time will tell, some of the implications of all this!….

It seems on top of the ‘political heat’ that’s facing the nation, Britain will also experience its hottest forecast weather for the year with temperatures to soar into the 30s C in the south and south east. Pollen levels expected to sing—nothing to sneeze at too! Temperatures expected to remain high throughout next week!

Vancouver early morning sunshine can sometimes be overshadowed by fog that seems to roll in out of nowhere!

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~Alfred Kreymborg

A stretch of cold & crisp wintry days with an abundance of snow on the mountains has our city experiencing a second day of an eerie, mysterious morning fog that envelops the towering condos of the downtown core.

A typical inversion, the meteorologists call it.

Festive Season! Christmastide! A new year! …All elements of a ‘time’ to be spirited! To celebrate life!

In our hopes for peace, joy, & love in our world, the 9 ladies dancing can be encouragement to ‘dance the dance of life’ together with compassion & mutual respect in all we do!

That’s right, the tourist magnet that’s the Gastown steamclock has been temporarily taken away for repairs.

No crowds gathering to hear the Westminster chimes whistle for awhile and photos at the empty corner will be mostly selfies while it’s refurbished and made as good as new in hopefully a timely manner!

It seems ‘free’ beginner swimming lessons for kids and ‘free’ Sunday parking outside the downtown core are just some of the goodies proposed in the campaigning for power at City Hall where the main civic issue is turning out to be affordable housing in all its complexity.

Neighbourhoods and community–let’s keep Vancouver strong & vibrant in all its diversity!

The Vancouver Sun has dubbed the past few days as “Fog-tober” in our fair city!

Fantastic photos abound of “hauntingly beautiful” scenes around town!

As Thursday’s the prelude to tomorrow’s start of our Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend, remember the words of American writer Carl Sandberg:

Vancouver’s been blanketed in fog to varying degrees for about a week now. Some say it’s a fitting weather condition for the season of Hallowe’en while I am sure the operators of float plane services out of the Coal Harbour waterfront are saying it’s a curse on revenues. Too many days of “operations suspended for today.” Unfortunately, weather forecasters say the fog isn’t going to be lifting anytime soon…..at the earliest, possibly over the weekend.

Cheers to extra care & caution during poor visibility!…..

A fun short article, captures a bit of westcoast spirit…..

“Driftwood artist Max Newhouse says the raw material he gathers is “on its way to the grave” when he salvages it on the windswept beaches of British Columbia. The east coast of Vancouver Island is his favourite place to find the bent, twisted and weather-worn pieces of driftwood he makes into everything from tables and chairs to musical instruments. He’s currently building a harp from a block of yellow cedar he scavenged

“Yellow cedar is very precious, very hard to find,” he says. “But almost every piece of wood I lay my hands on I can use to make something.”

Mr. Newhouse, 66, began working with driftwood when he was 17 and it’s been “an obsession” ever since.

He has a recurring dream in which he’s dropped on a beach with a few rechargeable power tools. He walks along the shoreline gathering driftwood, creating pieces of art as he goes. Customers search him out, beach combing for his art, as it were.”

Apparently American tourist visits to Canada have fallen. Our strong Canadian currency, new passport regulations, and headaches at the border are all challenges that it’s said won’t dissipate any time soon. The good news is that travel to Canada from other countries is showing signs of picking up and interestingly enough Canadians took more trips abroad in November than since record keeping began in 1972.

Cheers to bon voyage and mobility!……the world is our oyster!

When’s the last time you visited a library or went for “aroma therapy” at a country bakeshop? Those are a couple of interesting queries in the morning newspapers!…….of books & buns….

It appears Vancouverites wil spend another day in a fog! Yesterday’s was all day lasting in the downtown core although news reports throughout the day were teasingly talking about the bright sunshine and blue skies that were tanatalizing skiers up Grouse, Cypress, & Seymour mountains! Clearly, this can be quite the enticement for the ski hills!

Whatever it is that’s on your plate for today, if you are in and around Vancouver don’t forget about “Dine Out” and the great value opportunities that abound for a treat out for a bite. If it’s office hours and paper work that will take up most of your day, hope you won’t be snowed under.